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The whole trial of Mr. Christopher Love, before a pretended high court of justice…The whole triall of Mr. Christopher Love, before a pretended high court of justice…
The whole trial of Mr. Christopher Love, before a pretended high court of justice in Westminster Hall containing the charge of high treason against him ... with the relation of his suffering and his speech and prayer at his death on Tower-hill / published by John Farthing, citizen of London, who took the trial in the said court in short-writing for Mr. Love, and at his own request ; to which is added The tragedy of his trial and death in very elegant verses / by the acute author of Iter boreale.The whole triall of Mr. Christopher Love, before a pretended high court of justice in Westminster Hall containing the charge of high treason against him ... with the relation of his suffering and his speech and prayer at his death on Tower-hill / published by John Farthing, citizen of London, who took the triall in the said court in short-writing for Mr. Love, and at his own request ; to which is added The tragedy of his triall and death in very elegant verses / by the acute author of Iter boreale.
London : s.n., 1660
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And the better to carry on and accomplish their said traitorous and wicked design, he the said Christopher Love, together with the said William Drake, Henry Jermin, Henry Percy, Richard Graves, Edward Massey, John Gibbons, Silas Titus, James Bunce, and others (since the death of Charles Stewart, late King of England, who for his notorious treasons, and other tyrannies and murders by him committed in the late unnatural and cruel war, was, by Authority derived from Parliament, justly condemned to death, and executed) several days and times in the respective years aforesaid, at London aforesaid, and at sundry other places of this Common-wealth, and since this Nation was settled in the way of a Common-wealth or free State, as aforesaid, did traitorously and maliciously declare, publish, and promote Charles Stewart, the eldest Son of the late King of England, to be King of England (meaning this Common-wealth) without the consent of the people in Parliament, first had and signified by Authority and Ordinances to that purpose. And further, to carry on and accomplish their said traitorous and wicked design, he the said Christopher ⟨p. 2⟩Love, on several days and times in the respective years aforesaid, at London aforesaid, and in divers other places within this Common-wealth of England, and elsewhere, together with the said William Drake, Henry Jermin, Henry Percy, Richard Graves, Edward Massey, John Gibbons, Silas Titus, James Bunch, and other their accomplices, as aforesaid, did traitorously and maliciously invite, aid, and assist the Scots, being foreigners and strangers, to invade this Common-wealth of England, and adhered to the forces of the enemy raised against the Parliament and Common-wealth aforesaid, and Keepers of the Liberties of England aforesaid. And further, to carry on and accomplish the said traitorous and wicked design, he the said Christopher Love divers days and times between the twenty ninth day of March, 1650, and the first day of June, 1651.
And the better to carry on and accomplish their said traiterous and wicked designe, he the said Christopher Love, together with the said William Drake, Henry Jermin, Henry Piercy, Richard Graves, Edward Massey, John Gibbons, Sylas Titus, James Bunce, and others (since the death of Charls Stewart, late King of England, who for his notorious treasons, and other tyrannies and murders by him committed in the late unnatural and cruel war, was, by Authority derived from Parliament, justly condemned to death, and executed) several daies and times in the respective years aforesaid, at London aforesaid, and at sundry other places of this Common-wealth, and since this Nation was setled in the way of a Common-wealth or free State, as aforesaid, did traiterously and maliciously declare, publish, and promote Charles Stewart, the eldest Son of the late King of England, to be King of England (meaning this Common-wealth) without the consent of the people in Parliament, first had and signified by Authority and Ordinances to that purpose. And further, to carry on and accomplish their said traiterous and wicked designe, he the said Christopher